Day One - Well, you pack your car's boot full on a friday night and set off 5.30 am, on the saturday morning. Objective one - reach junction 25 M5 Motorway at Taunton in time for Sainsbury's cafe to open at eight for a cheap but delicious breakfast. Depart Taunton refreshed at nine and one and a half hours later, arrive on the sea front at Teignmouth.
In two and a half hours you can stroll along the promanade and sea wall (by the railway line) and through the shopping centre to the back beach were you can overlook both the harbour and Shaldon village across the water. Then walk back to your vehicle on The Den car park and overlook the mouth of the River Teign.
At mid-day we drive across the Teign bridge and into Shaldon village. Our dinner today is a large bag of chips each from the excellent fish and chip shop and eaten again overlooking Shaldon beach and the river Teign estuary.
Around about 3.00 pm we drive the hour to Plymouth and on to catch the Ferry from Devonport to Torpoint. We are staying at Torpoint in a three bedroom cottage on the banks of the Tamar River and from where we overlook the naval dockyards. There is nothing to spoil our view over the Tamar to the Dockyards and we can sit, relax and sip a few glasses of wine to see out the day.
Our biggest expenditure today for the four of us has been the £25 of fuel to travel down here and around £20 for food including the wine. Having purchased a copy of the Plymouth Herald newspaper, we digest all that is to happen over the coming days including the naval shipping movements up and down the Tamar. Soon it is time for bed and we go to sleep listening to the lapping of the water on the little beach directly outside our bedroom window.
to be continued with day two...
